Today was Art Cologne, which is the world’s oldest art fair. Normally it’s a mix of 20 and 21st century art, but this year it was definitely much more contemporary which is not really so much my thing. Regardless, there were loads of interesting things to see, and the lovely Troy and Rehan are always fun to have along 🙂 My favorite thing is taking photos in the reflections from the light display (the photo in the header of this blog is from last year 🙂 ) After a long afternoon of bizarre art we had kebab and called it a day.
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Flowers and Fairs Part 1: TEFAF Maastricht
One of the nice things about my job is that I often get invited to art fairs in the area. In the last month I’ve already been to two! Last month was TEFAF in Maastricht and today was the radically different Art Cologne.
Tefaf is absolutely, mind-blowingly beautiful! They fill the place to overflowing with fresh tulips of all kinds and have everything from furniture to classical art to sculputure to modern art. I rode up with one of my students and her husband and had an amazing afternoon people watching (this is a totally different crowd than other art fairs…mainly private collectors and dealers). Afterwards we went in to the city for fritten and shopping for cheese, vla, fruity beer and toast sprinkles! Maastricht is always fun, and is full of little bistros, eclectic shops and has a great walk on the medieval city walls.
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- flowers everywhere!
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- the flowers were so well placed.
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- I’m pretty sure these tulips were specially created for this exhibition
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- so pretty
I can’t wait to go again next year!
Young Jen in Spats 